Standard Scale & Supply Co. v. Reiter
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division. Action at law by Edward Reiter against the Standard Scale & Supply Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division. Action at law by Edward Reiter against the Standard Scale & Supply Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error. Defendant in error, a New York corporation, hereinafter designated as plaintiff, brought suit at law against plaintiff in error, hereinafter designated as defendant, to recover damages for alleged breach of contract made and entered into on February 23, 1904, between defendant’s assignor and plaintiff, and being in the words and figures following, viz.:…
1Opinion of the CourtKohesaat, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). [1] The assignment of error above set out challenges the admissibility of evidence offered for the purpose of elucidating some of the provisions of the contract, particularly those which refer to the scope and method of the business therein contemplated.
No rule of law is better settled than that which denies the right of parties to a contract to vary its terms by reference to conversations had before it was conclnded and signed. 1 Greenleaf, Ev. § 275; White v. National Bank, 102 U. S. 658, 26 L. Ed. 250; Met-calf v. Williams, 104 U. S. 93, 26 L. Ed. 665;…
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